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1847–1868

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Birth Date
2 February 1816
Death Date
27 January 1893
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William Wheeler

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  • Birth date is confirmed by the missionary register and his death date is confirmed by his burial record.

    William initially traveled to the Salt Lake Valley with his family in the James McGaw Company in 1852, as indicated in Perpetual Emigrating Fund General Files and Delna Swapp Powell’s book. 

    William and his wife, Mary Coombs Bradley, and two daughters Mary and Elizabeth, left Liverpool, England, on the ship “Ellen Maria” with 378 Saints.  William’s wife and daughter Mary died on July 21/22 of cholera when the company was about 14 miles west of Spring Creek.  William and his surviving daughter, Elizabeth, reached the Salt Lake Valley.

    In 1855, William married Elizabeth Case Milam, who also traveled to the Salt Lake Valley in his same company.

    At the end of a mission to England, William traveled home with the Thomas E. Ricks Company in 1866, according to a Deseret News Article of 30 August 1866.  He left for his mission in 1864.   

James McGaw Company (1852)

  • Age at Departure: 36
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Mary Wheeler (Age: 48)
  • Mary Wheeler (Age: 15)
  • Elizabeth Wheeler (Age: 5)

Thomas E. Ricks Company (1866)

  • Age at Departure: 50
  • Returning Missionary
  • Head of Household

Sources

  • 11th Company of 50 record, 1852 June 17-September 20.
  • "Deaths," Deseret News Weekly, 4 February 1893, 224.
  • England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
  • Find a Grave (Website)
  • "List of Names in Incoming Passenger Trains," Deseret News, 16 August 1866, 1.
  • Missionary Department Missionary Registers, 1860-1959, Volume 1.
  • Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger A, p. 155.
  • Powell, Delna Swapp, Eleventh Pioneer Emigration Company 1852 , [2002], p. 114, 126
  • "Returned Missionaries," Deseret News [Weekly] 30 Aug. 1866, 317.
  • Utah, Deaths and Burials, 1888-1946.
  • Utah State History Cemeteries and Burials Database.